The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-09-10
morning grooming his horses will be well


killer is composed of one part muriate of
potash in I 900 parts of water.
There is no one thing that is 50 much
required nowadays on the average farm
as to thoroughly systematic labor.
Sluggish horses are generally made so
by the way they are handled. A lazy
man is pretty sure to have lazy horses.
Raw onions chopped fine and mixed
with food twice week are recommended
as better than a dozen cures for chicken
cholera.
You will be likely to save trouble by
speaking kindly to your horses every
time you approach them in the stable or
elsewhere.
Pure linseed oil is claimed as the best
remedy for pear blight, though it cannot
be wholly relied upon when the trees are
we'll under way with the disease.
Fine hay or cut or well broken straw
makes good nests for hens. AS good,
perhaps better nests can be made of
shavings of soft wood from the carpen-
ter's bench.
Fowls should not be allowed around
barns, stables or carriage houses. They
are neither useful nor ornamental adj
juncts thereto; on the contrary, they are
highly detrimental.
Recent experiments seem to show that
eggs will keep in fair condition from
June to November packed in salt, and
that it is quite as good as the lime and
salt pickle commonly used.
Never clean horses in the stable; the
dust fouls their crib, makes them dis.
gusted with their food, and vitiates the
atmosphere, which should be kept health
full by every means at command.
For gapes put,ten drops spirits turpen-
tine in pint of water, and give no other
liquid to the chicks to drink. Put
teaspoonful OF turpcntine in a quart of
corn meal and feed Turpentine instant
ly destroys the cape worm.
A mess feed given to COW while she is
being MIXED draws her attention and she
will not hold up the milk as cows are apt
to do when the calf is taken from them
The milking can be done more thoroughly
as well as quicker, when the cow is
quietly feeding. And if fed cabbage or
turnips at this time the odor will not effect
the milk
The following is given as a good prep
aration for the destruction of the beetle
or potato bug Take three pounds of
lime, Stake, and add six to eight gallons
of water, and tablespoonful of concen-
trated lyc. Mix all together and apply
to the vines with a common sprinkler.
1t will work like charm, one or two
applications completely Kidding the patch
Of the beetles and larvG.
Perhaps no family of insects is more
widely distributed or more generally de-
structiye and better known than plant
lice. These pests do not content them
selves with any single part of a plant
Some work on the roots and sap the vital
ity Of the herb or tree; Others draw their
nourishment from the stems and twigs
and thus blight the plants; still others
suck the vitality from bud and foliage, A
few work on both roots and leaves
Most cultivated vegetables, grains and
trees have their characteristic plant
house enemies.
All of our domestic fowls are useful,
but in varying degrees and different di-
rectious. No classification upon their
useful qualities can be made which will
be complete. The following, however,
by the P0u(trg World, will be of value to
many readers Egg produccrs-Leg-
horns, Hamburgs Russians, Minorcas,
Black Spanish, Polish and Andalusian
Table fowls--Dorking, Honduras, La
Flcchc, Games, Creyecours, Brahmas,
C0chins, Langshans. General utility
! fowls-Plymouth Rocks, Wy&ndottes,
Javas, DominiQues. But all such CLASH
fcations are far from complies, for some
of the table fowls are excellent layers
and some Of the great egg producers are
fitted to satisfy the taste of an epicure.
The Seneca Lake grape growers recon-
mend early blowing as means OF retain
ing moisture in the soil. An old vine
yard does not require manure close to
the vines, as the small roots are found
nearer the centre Of the rows; but young
vineyards should be maaufed close to the
vine and plowed close. Flowing away
from the vines and then leveling with
the cultiyator are advisable. Hand hoe
ing II ust be avoided. Vines should be
kept in good condition in dry weather by
stirring the soil frequently, which serves
also to gather. the ammonia from the
atmosphere. Vineyards on clay soil re-
quire more cultivation Cutting the
vines in summer is thought to be injuri-
GUS, although good fruit is grown in an
old vineyard where it was necessary to
do this, as the trellises were not sufficient
to keep the fruit from the ground. One
grower sand that his Isabella vineyard
had been in bearing twenty-five years
and still produced good fruit.
Some horses have habit, when fright